2008Q3 Reports: Wiki

The ACL Wiki (http://aclweb.org/aclwiki) is now one-and-a-half years
old. Since the ACL Report for 2007, the ACL Wiki has continued to grow
in content and popularity. The total number of page views has grown
from 100,000 to 350,000. The number of pages has increased from 1,700
to 2,000. This figure includes pages that have relatively low content;
the number of high-content pages has grown from 100 to 235. On an average
day, there are more than 600 page views. (More statistics are available
on the Wiki itself.)

The purpose of the ACL Wiki is to facilitate the sharing of information
on all aspects of Computational Linguistics. The Wiki includes links to
blogs, conferences, competitions, people, organizations, course
descriptions, corpora, datasets, and introductory articles on a variety
of CL and NLP topics. One area of strong growth has been the lists of
resources for languages other than English.

The ACL Wiki is a gathering spot for bringing together the Computational
Linguistics community. For example, the Textual Entailment Portal is a
subset of the ACL Wiki that "serves as a community portal for everything
related to Textual Entailment", bringing together the RTE community. As
another example, the ACL Conference Handbook is now hosted on the ACL
Wiki, which makes it easier to keep the Handbook up-to-date, and makes
it more accessible to the community.

All members of ACL are strongly encouraged to contribute to the ACL Wiki.
Whatever subfield of Computational Linguistics you work in, this is your
opportunity to raise the profile of research in your area. You can write
an introductory article for your subfield, create a bibliography with
links to online papers, make a list of key resources for your subfield,
or add benchmarks for your subfield to the State of the Art pages in the
ACL Wiki. In the Research section of the ACL Wiki, there are several
fledgling articles that need some expert help, on topics such as Lexical
Acquisition, Machine Translation, Information Extraction, and Multiword
Expressions. Consider that the number of readers of your contribution to
the ACL Wiki might well surpass the number of readers of a typical
conference paper. The time you invest in the ACL Wiki will have high
returns for the community.